Sleeping with the Fishes

Question: I have a question concerning the Loa. Your site mentions Agwe as the Lord of the Underworld, but he doesn't have the Death Purview. I'm just curious as to why not.

The phrase is misleading, so our fault, not yours. Scion: Demigod sets Agwe as the boatman who collects the souls of the dead and ferries them to the Underworld; while this is all nicely death-flavored, it's really an example of a deity with Psychopomp, not Death. The Loa don't technically have a "lord" of the Underworld in the sense of figures like Hades or Yama; the closest thing they've got is Agwe picking up dead people and the Baron with his retinue of ghede and grave-spirits whooping it up, and neither of them is exactly reigning over the place with an iron fist.

Unfortunately, the Loa are a terrible mess in the original sourcebooks, and we haven't touched much of their stuff online in a while because we knew we were going to need to rewrite them. It looks like they're winning the poll over to the right, so they'll probably be the next project we tackle; in the meantime, there are sadly oddities, inconsistencies and weirdnesses still present in the Loa section of the site that are waiting to be fixed. By rights, Agwe probably shouldn't have anything to do with the underworld at all, as he's a figure associated with the ocean and we've never been able to find anything linking him to the dead even as a psychpomp - but then again, we suspect Agwe won't be staying on the roster after we finish our rewrite, so it may be a moot point.